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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5274026" data-attributes="member: 40177">Okay.  I'll bite.  1.  I'll do both in my games, depending on the setting.  My female players have, historically, not cared.  And I have actually ignored playing certain games (Pendragon, for example) because I knew my female players would not get much fun out of it.  2.  Maybe SOME female gamers.  Not any I know - they just joke about it, shrug, and get on with it.  Seriously, some people in the world need thicker skin.  Sorry for saying it.  3.  No.  Anyone is open for play - there is no preference set out for anyone.  Going out of your way to recruit females is just creepy.4.  Again, no.  Unless they're having an "ugly day" and want to feel attractive.  Then it's "join an RPG group, or go into a gaming store - every single guy in there will think you're the most attractive person ever!"  Sad but true.  5.  Not really.  This is not my battle - I'm a white, twenty-something guy.  The portrayal of women in RPGs is not my fight.  I have no strong feeling about it, either way.  I do have this dream of telling Kevin Siembieda that he gave "This whole RPG thing" a fighting chance, and that he should instead focus his energies on landscaping.  Or bull-fighting.  6.  Wait.  You mean actually PLAY with them?  Ugh!  Hell no!  Playing with kids is annoying.  I game as a leisure activity.  I don't want to be the creepy guy recruiting twelve year olds to come "play" in his living room.  7.  What the hell?  The girls in my group are bloodthirsty minxes.  Just last week, when I had to do a one-off session, I was told by one of the girls that she needed her "killing fix".  If I made it such a balance, it would be boring the wimminfolk, not getting them involved.  But yes, I do like a balance in my games.  I guess that makes me in touch with my feminine side... actually, if I had a feminine side, I'd be touching it pretty often.  Sueezing it, mostly.  Honk.8.  We play 4e D&D.  There's very little "sexist content".  But I get where you're going with this, and absolutely.  Gotta say, though, I'm a little bugged how there are matriarchal societies in abundance in D&D, but any patriarchal society is always underdeveloped and savage.  If you can do one, you can do the other, can't you?9.  Oh, sure.  But I mean, that's part of the "Don't be a jerk" rule.  And it doesn't just apply to the women - it goes for everyone.  That being said, we make plenty of sexist jokes, and I have on occasion asked one of my female players "Wait, shouldn't you be in the kitchen?".  This always gets a laugh, because that's the group of friends I have. I'm sure we'd piss off some girls.</blockquote>

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